The Daily Stoic

“power doesn’t corrupt, it reveals.”

We’re not trying to ace tests or impress teachers. We are reading and studying to live, to be good human beings—always and forever.

Everyone had a job—a specific duty. Even people who did bad things—they were doing their job of being evil because evil is a part of life.

He was much more interested in hearing what the other person had to say than making sure he was heard or—as most of us insist upon—winning the argument.

Life is short—the fruit of this life is a good character and acts for the common good.

How much harder is it to focus on your own issues when you’re distracted with other people’s drama and conflict?

If you hold a perpetually negative outlook, soon enough everything you encounter will seem negative.

we were not acting consciously or deliberately but instead by forces we did not bother to evaluate.

“We buy things we don’t need, to impress people we don’t like.”

WHY DO YOU NEED TO IMPRESS THESE PEOPLE AGAIN?